Navy SEAL: I shot Osama bin Laden 'a handful of times'

Interviewed on CBS News' 60 Minutes, the former Navy SEAL who wrote a
first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden discusses the
moment he shot and killed the already wounded al-Qaeda leader.

10:52AM BST 10 Sep 2012

He added details to his claim in his book "No Easy Day",written under the pseudonym Mark Owen, about the death of the al-Qaeda founder.

Mr Owen, who has been identified by US media as Matt Bissonnette, has been threatened with legal action by the Pentagon for potentially releasing classified information.

Interviewed by the US television network CBS, a disguised Mr Owen repeated his claim that bin Laden was shot as soon as he looked out of his bedroom, contrary to the official version of events that the terrorist leader was only shot after fleeing into his bedroom.

Mr Owen said one SEAL fired after seeing a man's head poking into a hallway.

Unaware that it was Osama bin Laden who had been shot, he said that he and another SEAL shot the man again as he lay moving on the floor, because his hands were hidden.